Santo Domingo’s seafront avenue, known as the “Malecon,” as well as by its official name of George Washington Avenue, was the scene of a large demonstration organized by the Social Justice Movement in demand for an end to administrative corruption. The call was for harsher punishments for the officials in the former Fernandez administration who are blamed for the so-called “fiscal hole” that the government is facing now. Listin Diario said that the demonstrators were dressed in black or wore black ribbons in mourning for the state of the economy. They promised continued demonstrations during the holiday recess and even bigger events in the coming year.
Protestors rejected the fiscal taxation increase package, the congressional slush funds, saying that the funds are used to manipulate people and deny services that are rightfully theirs. “We demand that President Danilo Medina and the attorney general send to justice those responsible for the largest fiscal deficit in our history,” said the protestors. As reported in Hoy, the protestors said: “We will not accept our cents being used for a system based on political patronage, or for paying for people who do not work, extra payrolls, luxury vehicles, high wages and unjustified pensions.”
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